Product Management differs by industry, company, and era. Like many things, it is growing and maturing every day. Through Jason's own personal experience; he spoke in an open format, and challenged the audience to envision their ideal Product Management career; at a small versus a large organization. Takeways: - Help you to determine: How much responsibility, accountability and ultimately impact do you want to have? - Help you evaluate yourself: Does your personality resonate better with small company product management skills or large company?

1. How Organization Size Influences
Product Management explained by Xero's Sr PM
/Productschool @ProductSchool /ProductmanagementSF

2. About Me
Currently a senior product manager
at Xero
8 years of experience working in
product management (or what
resembles product management)
Spent 12 years working in federal
and state governments

3. Measuring organization size
Number of Employees
Size of Product Management Team
Revenue
Number of Customers
Startup Conglomerate
Most Organizations

4. Why is organization size important?
Skills
Focus
Autonomy and ownership
Advancement

5. Skills
Scrappy
Navigating ambiguity
Jack-of-all-trades
Intuition
Communication
Navigating bureaucracy
Specialization in UX,
analytics, platform, etc.
Small Org Big Org

6. Focus
Product-market fit
Prioritization
Fail fast
Ship and iterate
Keep the trains running
Grow the product
Coordinate with other
product areas
Manage risk
Small Org Big Org

7. Autonomy and ownership
Fewer layers and more
control over decisions
Collaborate and decide
Broader product scope
More layers and less
control over decisions
Drive consensus
Narrower product scope
Small Org Big Org

8. Advancement
Flatter org structure is less
likely to have
intermediate roles
More freedom to customize
role
Hierarchical org structure
usually creates career
stepping stones
Opportunity to specialize
(platform, domain, etc.)
Small Org Big Org

9. Apply it
Know yourself and what you want
Identify what makes your skills and experience relevant
Seek out opportunities to make the transition

10. Questions?

11. www.productschool.com